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Whoever is to blame for it, Samuel Johnson's books are unread ... and someone who saw a portrait of him by Joshua Reynolds asked if Johnson was blind. He mouthed, muttered, tapped his feet ...

Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai will be acquired ... (Reynolds’ “Sarah (Kemble) Siddons as the Tragic Muse,” “Portrait of Samuel Johnson, ‘Blinking Sam’” and “Diana (Sackville ...

Johnson’s dictionary appeared in 1755 and ... figures of the age as portrait painter and Royal Academy founder Joshua Reynolds, actor David Garrick, politician Edmund Burke and playwright ...

Samuel Johnson was so funny that some of the ... and I remember when Sir Joshua Reynolds at my house reminded him that he had drank eleven cups, he replied — ‘Sir, I did not count your glasses ...

The black man in Sir Joshua Reynolds' painting, a noble, almost epic figure silhouetted against a dramatic sky, is widely considered to be Francis Barber, Samuel Johnson's servant and friend.